The Rose of Tibet

The Rose of Tibet

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name = The Rose of Tibet
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image_caption = Cover of Penguin paperback edition
author = Lionel Davidson
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country = Great Britain
language = English
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genre = thriller novel
publisher = Gollancz
release_date = 1962
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 315 pp
isbn = ISBN 014002137X
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"The Rose of Tibet" is a thriller by Lionel Davidson.

Plot summary

Charles Houston makes a perilous and illegal journey from India into the forbidden land of Tibet, in the hope of rescuing his vanished brother. What he does not know is that his coming was prophesied a century before, and he is awaited by an impossible love, an enormous treasure, and the invading Red Chinese army.

Critical opinion

Graham Greene said of the novel: 'I hadn’t realised how much I had missed the genuine adventure story until I read The Rose of Tibet', while Daphne du Maurier wrote: 'It has all the excitement of King Solomon's Mines' [ [http://www.faber.co.uk/work/rose-of-tibet/9780571242917/ Faber Finds - The Rose of Tibet] ]

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